.NET Core Job Trends in England

.NET Core
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring .NET Core skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 300 259 116
Rank change year-on-year -41 -143 +26
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 364 543 1,730
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.61% 1.22% 2.60%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.49% 5.47% 11.40%
Number of salaries quoted 334 383 1,663
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

.NET Core falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,630 9,930 15,178
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.18% 22.22% 22.84%
Number of salaries quoted 5,095 5,990 12,928
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -9.19%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £111,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,200 £61,500
% change year-on-year -1.81% +7.64% -8.89%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET Core relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

.NET Core job vacancy trend in England

.NET Core
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in England over the 6 months to 15 February 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Core within the England region over the 6 months to 15 February 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -41 107 £55,000 - 49
London -12 102 £80,000 +14.29% 51
North West -4 66 £55,000 - 33
South East -38 50 £60,000 +11.11% 59
Midlands -20 47 £65,000 +23.81% 26
East Midlands -6 36 £65,000 +23.81% 15
South West -1 35 £55,000 -24.14% 17
Yorkshire -49 23 £40,000 -20.00% 11
North East -8 18 £55,000 +22.22% 6
East of England -6 16 £73,750 +47.50% 21
West Midlands -14 11 £45,000 -14.29% 11
.NET Core
UK

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (1.65%) IIS
2 2 (0.55%) CMS
2 2 (0.55%) Confluence
2 2 (0.55%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.27%) Kentico
3 1 (0.27%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.27%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.55%) ION Anvil
Cloud Services
1 222 (60.99%) Azure
2 87 (23.90%) AWS
3 57 (15.66%) Azure DevOps
4 46 (12.64%) Serverless
5 31 (8.52%) SaaS
6 29 (7.97%) GitHub
7 21 (5.77%) GitHub Actions
8 20 (5.49%) Power Platform
9 19 (5.22%) Azure Functions
10 15 (4.12%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (4.12%) Azure AKS
10 15 (4.12%) Azure Logic Apps
11 14 (3.85%) Amazon S3
11 14 (3.85%) AWS Step Functions
12 13 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 13 (3.57%) Amazon EventBridge
12 13 (3.57%) Amazon SQS
12 13 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
13 12 (3.30%) Azure Monitor
13 12 (3.30%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.65%) Internet
2 1 (0.27%) AMQP
2 1 (0.27%) HTTP
2 1 (0.27%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (38.19%) SQL Server
2 37 (10.16%) MongoDB
3 36 (9.89%) Azure SQL Database
4 32 (8.79%) NoSQL
5 25 (6.87%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
6 14 (3.85%) Power BI
7 13 (3.57%) DynamoDB
8 12 (3.30%) MySQL
8 12 (3.30%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.10%) NonStop SQL
9 4 (1.10%) Redis
10 3 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.55%) MariaDB
11 2 (0.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 1 (0.27%) Amazon Athena
12 1 (0.27%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 53 (14.56%) Git
2 11 (3.02%) Visual Studio
3 6 (1.65%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.37%) JIRA
4 5 (1.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 3 (0.82%) MSTest
5 3 (0.82%) NUnit
6 2 (0.55%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.55%) Vite
6 2 (0.55%) webpack
7 1 (0.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.27%) CA Release Automation
7 1 (0.27%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.27%) GitLab
7 1 (0.27%) JMeter
7 1 (0.27%) Postman
7 1 (0.27%) Selenium
7 1 (0.27%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.27%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.27%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 44 (12.09%) Finance
2 38 (10.44%) Social Skills
3 18 (4.95%) Law
4 13 (3.57%) Games
5 12 (3.30%) Public Sector
6 10 (2.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (2.20%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (2.20%) Legal
8 7 (1.92%) Front Office
9 6 (1.65%) Banking
10 4 (1.10%) Advertising
10 4 (1.10%) Marketing
11 3 (0.82%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.82%) Retail
11 3 (0.82%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.55%) Back Office
12 2 (0.55%) Local Government
12 2 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.27%) Automotive
13 1 (0.27%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 255 (70.05%) Developer
2 128 (35.16%) .NET Developer
3 96 (26.37%) Senior
4 81 (22.25%) Software Developer
5 65 (17.86%) C# Developer
6 59 (16.21%) Senior Developer
7 50 (13.74%) Full-Stack Developer
8 46 (12.64%) Software Engineer
9 43 (11.81%) Lead
10 34 (9.34%) C# .NET Developer
11 25 (6.87%) .NET Software Engineer
12 24 (6.59%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
12 24 (6.59%) Lead Developer
13 22 (6.04%) React Developer
13 22 (6.04%) Senior Software Developer
13 22 (6.04%) Senior Software Engineer
14 21 (5.77%) Senior .NET Developer
15 20 (5.49%) Azure Developer
15 20 (5.49%) Senior C# Developer
16 18 (4.95%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 364 (100.00%) .NET
2 130 (35.71%) ASP.NET
3 106 (29.12%) React
4 85 (23.35%) .NET Framework
5 66 (18.13%) AngularJS
6 61 (16.76%) RESTful
7 54 (14.84%) HTML
8 52 (14.29%) Entity Framework
9 50 (13.74%) CSS
10 47 (12.91%) Blazor
11 42 (11.54%) ASP.NET MVC
12 39 (10.71%) ASP.NET Core
13 37 (10.16%) ASP.NET Web API
14 33 (9.07%) Vue
15 31 (8.52%) Node.js
16 25 (6.87%) REST
17 22 (6.04%) HTML5
18 14 (3.85%) CSS3
19 13 (3.57%) AWS CDK
20 10 (2.75%) Dapper ORM
Miscellaneous
1 32 (8.79%) Cloud Native
2 16 (4.40%) Greenfield Project
3 12 (3.30%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (3.02%) AI Agents
4 11 (3.02%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (3.02%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 8 (2.20%) Product Ownership
6 7 (1.92%) Sports Betting
7 6 (1.65%) 3D Graphics
7 6 (1.65%) Hedge funds
8 5 (1.37%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.37%) Digital TV
8 5 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.10%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (1.10%) Virtual Team
10 3 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.82%) Fixed Income
10 3 (0.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (0.82%) Mobile App
11 2 (0.55%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.92%) VMS
2 4 (1.10%) Windows
3 3 (0.82%) Linux
4 1 (0.27%) Android
4 1 (0.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (37.91%) Agile
2 137 (37.64%) Full-Stack Development
3 107 (29.40%) CI/CD
4 101 (27.75%) Software Engineering
5 98 (26.92%) Microservices
6 85 (23.35%) DevOps
7 70 (19.23%) MVC
8 58 (15.93%) Containerisation
9 51 (14.01%) Continuous Improvement
10 46 (12.64%) SDLC
11 41 (11.26%) Clean Code
12 39 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
13 35 (9.62%) Scrum
14 30 (8.24%) Infrastructure as Code
14 30 (8.24%) Mentoring
15 29 (7.97%) AI
15 29 (7.97%) Collaborative Culture
15 29 (7.97%) TDD
16 28 (7.69%) OO
17 26 (7.14%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 311 (85.44%) C#
2 151 (41.48%) SQL
3 120 (32.97%) JavaScript
4 51 (14.01%) TypeScript
5 24 (6.59%) Python
6 15 (4.12%) PowerShell
7 9 (2.47%) Rust
7 9 (2.47%) T-SQL
8 7 (1.92%) Kusto Query Language
9 5 (1.37%) Bicep
10 4 (1.10%) Bash
11 3 (0.82%) Erlang
11 3 (0.82%) Java
11 3 (0.82%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.55%) PHP
13 1 (0.27%) C++
13 1 (0.27%) XAML
Qualifications
1 30 (8.24%) Degree
2 13 (3.57%) Security Cleared
3 11 (3.02%) AWS Certification
3 11 (3.02%) AWS Certified Developer
4 10 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.47%) SC Cleared
6 6 (1.65%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.37%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.27%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (4.40%) QA
2 7 (1.92%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.65%) WCAG
4 2 (0.55%) GDPR
4 2 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.55%) SLA
5 1 (0.27%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.27%) ITGC
System Software
1 82 (22.53%) Docker
2 1 (0.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 59 (16.21%) Kubernetes
2 33 (9.07%) Terraform
3 2 (0.55%) Ansible
Vendors
1 100 (27.47%) Microsoft
2 5 (1.37%) Google
3 4 (1.10%) Facebook
3 4 (1.10%) YouTube
4 3 (0.82%) CrowdStrike
4 3 (0.82%) Databricks
5 2 (0.55%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (0.55%) Foundry
5 2 (0.55%) ION Trading
5 2 (0.55%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.27%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.27%) IBM
6 1 (0.27%) Okta
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle